Wasting My Hate Lyrics

Lyric discussion by morello 

Cover art for Wasting My Hate lyrics by Metallica

This song was inspired by Waylon Jennings, a good friend of James Hetfield. Waylon told James the story of when he was on vacation in Jamaica. Waylon was in a bar when one of the local Jamaicans just kept staring at him. This started to make Waylon very angry because this guy would not stop staring at him. Latter he found out that the Jamaican was high and had no idea he was staring, meaning Waylon was angry for no reason. He was wasting his hate on the Jamaican.

Song Meaning

@morello Awesome summary! Knew the backstory a bit, but this is brilliant.

Gotta love the Jamaicans....